Re: Emacs release and bundling GNU Elpa

[Artur Malabarba]

2015-06-22 12:20 GMT+01:00 Phillip Lord <address@hidden>:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> At step 3, we'd have the following novelties:
>> - the end user has to checkout both emacs.git and elpa.git before she
>>   can build Emacs (I suspect there will be some resistance, here).
>> - packages in emacs/lisp can start to depend on packages from elpa.git.
>> - we could even include preload some elpa.git packages (i.e. from loadup.el).
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure we'll ever get to step 3.
>
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> Would it not be possible to put elpa.get into emacs.git as some kind of
> subtree?

Or a submodule?

> It would be nice if running make clean on emacs.git checkout would also
> do a make clean on its related elpa.git.

I thinThe elpa.git would not be built. I